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To: Snowshoe who wrote (69734)	6/21/2008 3:46:28 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Snow, it's not just high fuel prices. For a few years, I kept on traveling by airliner leading up to and subsequently to the Twin Towers and Homeland Security's depredations. People in authority are always a pain in the neck, but given serious concerns and public fright, they have a licence to go ape, which they do. Airline people are people in authority too and while they are theoretically there to serve customers, that's not how they really feel about themselves or their passengers. They consider themselves very important people and are very annoying. Flying has become increasingly unpleasant over the years so now I'm sitting here in bed, comfy, with rain bucketing down, outside, 7.30am in the dead of winter, on the shortest day, barely light yet. I would normally now be sitting in Honolulu or somewhere nice, with wall to wall sunshine, from 5am to 9pm, so much heat an open shirt and shorts is all that's needed, with frequent trips to the ocean to swim a necessity. I'll get up soon and have a nice cup of tea and read of the Sunday paper. Hmm, need to make it to the letterbox and the paper is probably getting soggy.... The price of the ticket is not so much the issue as the hassles from those who fancy themselves as very important people who need to boss me around and threaten me, search me, question me, take my money and generally be very annoying. The price of the ticket is the straw that breaks the camel's back. But in Europe, Ryanair is doing well. They even quite like the price rise because although it temporarily cuts their profits, it'll see off a LOT of useless airlines who run high-priced bossy places instead of flying buses. It's actually pleasant to go on Ryanair [other than the customs, security and other government/aviation hassling people which are common to all]. When prices come down again, as they will, then Ryanair will be ready with competition eliminated. Many people already avoid the USA as it's such a hassle. Flying into Singapore for example is easy. People are going to Europe via Dubai, Singapore and the like from New Zealand and Australia. Mostly we used to go via the USA to throw in a trip to Disneyland or something. Many people have been taken prisoner in the USA, denied travel etc [one of our daughters and her son were because her passport had a water mark on it, which was very inconvenient, time and money wasting for us so I'm not keen to have such hassles repeated]. Mqurice